Shishir ShahStudied Mechanical Engineering as an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin, where he received his B.S. degree in 1994. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin fr his thesis on Vision-based Mobile Robot Navigation and Probabilistic Feature Integration for Object Recognition, respectively.His current research focuses on human behavior modeling and analysis, scene understanding, video analytics, biometrics, and microscopy image analysis. His long-term interests are centered on the broader area of knowledge driven intelligent systems capable of seamless incorporation of semantic information through statistical decision priors and data driven feedback, with the intent of developing 'visual decision' capabilities that would include cognitive functions for reasoning and learning. Read More Read Less